Becoming：118节

英语精读：

<Becoming>118 节

The diagnosis was not something he or my mother dwelled upon. 

We were decades, still, from a time when a simple Google search would bring up a head-spinning array of charts, statistics, and medical explainers that either gave or took away hope. I doubt he would have wanted to see them anyway.

词汇解释：

dwell on

to keep thinking or talking about something, especially something bad or unpleasant:

Spin

/spɪn/

turn around and around, especially fast

Head-spinning

the state that your head turn around and around; dizzy

Bring up:

computers: to cause (something, such as a file or picture) to appear on a computer screen

Array:

a large group of things. when shown or positioned in an attractive way:

Take away:

If you take something away from someone, you remove it from them, so that they no longer possess it or have it with them.

上下文分析：

这段内容，Michelle讲述了父母对父亲病情无所畏惧，乐观的态度，即使生活在谷歌出现的时代，父亲也不可能会用搜索数据的方式研究自己的病情。